TOP 100 ACTION FILMS OF ALL TIME NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD

the '90s thread feels redundant, if i'm being honest with myself, and a few folks were down with an action movies poll, so let's make it happen.

i think we all know what an action movie is, i guess the only question is do we include action movies that overlap with other genres they might be more readily identified with, i.e. 'the wild bunch', 'starship troopers', 'etc (i vote 'yes' but others may disagree.)

unless we're doing a poll on those other genres too, then yes?

I predict a clusterfuck

that's the most predictable prediction of all time.

Commando (Mark L Lester, 1985), cheeseball 80s Schwarzenneger idiocy at its best

Predator (John McTiernan, 1987), ditto

Raw Deal (John Irvin, 1986), ditto

robocop (verhoeven)
ronin (frankenheimer)
full contact (ringo lam)
the killer (woo)

the seven samurai
from russia with love
the french connection
to live and die in l.a.
north by northwest
heat
robocop
the warriors
aliens
hard boiled

gymkata

Predator is quite different tho' - all the gun-ho stuff gives way to sheer terror and Arnie does wear what seems to be an actually intended confused look by the end of it. He knows he ws lucky...many xps

starship troopers
bullitt
13 assassins
the man from nowhere
48 hours

the getaway (peckinpah)
the nest
assault on precinct 13

I kind of want to blanket-nominate the entirety of Jackie Chan's film career but will unreservedly call out "Drunken Master II" if forced to be specific.

terminator 2
gunga din
the men who would be king
zulu
tombstone
lethal weapon
charley varrick

Asoka
Sholay
Hard Target
Dobermann
Armour Of God

Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2003) - Kitano eschewing his usual strangeness for a modern, commercial update of the popular Zatoichi character, hugely enjoyable I thought. Predictably he followed it up with the unwatchably self-indulgent mess that was Takeshis'.

terminator
dirty harry
enter the dragon
king of beggars
kung fu hustle
mr majestyk
taking of pelham one two three

the desert rats
sergeant york
five graves to cairo
the dirty dozen

Project A
Escape From New York
Die Hard

unwatchably self-indulgent mess that was Takeshis

this movie is great

it's his other comedies I find inscrutable (mostly because I'm so unfamiliar with Japanese pop culture)

sonatine (kitano)
the mission (johnnie to)
election (johnnie to)
triad election (johnnie to)
who'll stop the rain?

darkman
die hard
die hard 2
hunt for red october
i come in peace

sub category of superior andrew davis action films:

above the law
code of silence
the fugitive
the package
under siege

omg

TIMECOP

Spielberg section:
Jaws
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
War of the Worlds

total recall
the last boy scout
stone cold
heroic trio
trespass
clear and present danger

the hidden fortress
escape from new york
the great escape
its a mad mad mad mad world
jason & the argonauts
yojimbo
the untouchables
kelly's heroes
dr. no
sanjuro
hell is for heroes
goldfinger
the good, the bad and the ugly

bloodsport

rapid fire
sniper
iron monkey
once upon a time in china
once upon a time in china II
once upon a time in china III

Double Impact
Speed

bloodsport

my man

the crow
blue steel
leon: the professional
the assignment
no escape
speed
true lies
the blade (tsui hark)
prison on fire
mission: impossible
the rock
con air
face/off
the fifth element

a fistful of dollars
a fistful of dynamite
the italian job (1969)
the guns of navarone
on her majesty's secret service
billy jack
vanishing point
shaft
le mans

Stagecoach (1939)

Will Smith corner:
Bad Boys
Men in Black
Enemy of the State
I, Robot

the 39 steps (hitchcock)

the road warrior
mad max
thief
thunderball
casino royale (2006)
red dawn
wheels on meals
they live
police story

the thing
tiger on beat
run and kill
city on fire
beast cops

throwing these out there

The Matrix
Pitch Black
The Fast and the Furious
Rumble in the Bronx

psyched for this poll

point break
strange days
k-19
hurt locker

project a
for a few dollars more
samurai assassin
where eagles dare
hard times
the driver
conan the barbarian
star trek ii: the wrath of khan
48 hours
death wish

oh snap CONAN

spartan

le cercle rouge
le samourai
army of shadows

spartan is dope

Romeo Is Bleeding
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Bourne Identity

all three bournes imo!

post-bournes

casino royale
hannah

nighthawks
encounters of the spooky kind
sharky's machine
southern comfort
first blood
the 13th warrior
valhalla
pusher
pusher 2
pusher 3
dead or alive
the island
wanted
salt
shoot 'em up
the chaser
forced vengeance
blue thunder
sudden impact
uncommon valor
superman 2
missing in action
delta force
the big red one
year of the dragon
runaway train
yes, madam!
eastern condors
the good, the bad, and the weird
split second
the dead pool
shoot to kill
dead bang
licence to kill
violent cop
punisher
punisher: war zone
snake in eagle's shadow
the spy who loved me
the gauntlet
telefon
enter the fat dragon
black sunday
north face
the eiger sanction
the towering inferno
live and let die
the hunted
madigan

Warlock

I was both confused and delighted for a couple mins before realizing this wasn't what I initially thought it was.

i'm going to let noms roll out for another week and then post the voting list. i think a top 100 is too much, so maybe a top 50?

100 doesn't seem enough.

gonna nominate the original GI Joe cartoon too

midnight run

http://www.chickensmoothie.com/oekaki/image/image.php?id=546865&size=large&format=auto&rev=2

robotcop

Ip Man
Flesh & Blood
Redbelt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76ZWYcmP_M

This is extremely fake, but this is the kind of cop we need. All human cops were bullies in high school and all cops are criminals with badges. They rape, they beat they torture. Robo-cops can't do that shit unless they're programmed to.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Drunken Master (the FIRST, much better one)
Tears of the Sun
The Thin Red Line
Titus

gonna nominate the original GI Joe cartoon too

omg dayo i kiss u.

i'm going to roll this shit out soon, get your noms in~

Dark of The Sun (aka The Mercenaries)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BymeLkZ7GqM

i'm tryin to think of a movie thta was recommended on here and i can't remember the thread- maybe a western, very inluential on the indie filmmakers of the 90's, matthau in the cast?

only remembered matthau there, i'll check again

not Pelham 123??

charley varrick?

lonely are the brave?

i keep meaning to do a post on the new school of dtv action cinema; movies like universal soldier: regeneration and undisputed ii & iii are leagues better than their theatrical predecessors and break the mold for what you expect from cheapo direct to video productions

omg dayo i kiss u.

― Leee, Monday, January 2, 2012 3:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN034sBeF4c

prob saw it at least 20 times growing up

lol now I remember why I named all my FFRPG characters 'Serpentor' ;_;

ok I'm pretty sure there's a GI Joe live-action movie thread but eff it, I want to see the new one why because of Jinx.

also, the RZA's going to be in it!?

Basically this is going to be the first movie I see in the theater since Tree Of Life.

ya charley varrick once i clocked matthau it was easy

anybody follow chinese cinema?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXA36GFpBFw

first minute or so of this comp contains some very promising shots! wish I knew more about them

http://shanghaiist.com/2012/01/17/watch_chinas_movie_highlights_of_20.php

nice~

looks like the full list of films shown is listed here:

http://shanghaiist.com/2012/01/17/watch_chinas_movie_highlights_of_20.php

The Thin Red Line

so the def u guys have of "action" is either "cool and recent" or "a film where anything happens"

nuts

i just hope it's not only you and i voting in this poll, homes~

Did you give instructions on how you want votes?

not yet...soon......

warrior's way

is 'children of men' an action flick?

jason and the argonauts
the big red one
clash of the titans (harryhausen film)
ip-man
wages of fear
the warriors

my weekend now looks like this:

Fri night: The Sting
Saturday: The Seven Ups, To Live and Die in LA
Sunday: Midnight Run, Charley Varrick

Psyched

Sunday: Midnight Run, Charley Varrick

nice double bill there. 'midnight run' is hilarious. tarantino blatantly stole some dialogue from 'charley varrick' for 'pulp fiction'. keep your ears peeled, youll know what i mean.

i've seen midnight run in installments here and there, cv will be all new to me

shit I forgot about midnight run, that was a favorite of mine in my post-high school pre-college haze. Love Yaphet Kotto in that flick.

i happen to just watch the seven-ups today -- is barely an action flick fyi, tho def of a set w/ the rest of ur sched

altho id prob take 'friends of eddie coyle' or 'the nickel ride' in the 70s procedural mold

man but i love 70's procedural tho

Speaking of the 70s, did Peckinpah's The Killer Elite get mentioned? It's overlong and not too engaging in spots, but does feature Robert Duvall vs ninjas on a battleship, IIRC.

i nom 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry'

eastwood and his sequels eh

The Thin Red Line

so the def u guys have of "action" is either "cool and recent" or "a film where anything happens"

Notwithstanding Malick's profound ambivalence towards the filming of the, uh, action scenes, TTRL is shot through the war film genre, and these scenes are, furthermore, hella rad, man. (I admit it's a challopsy/leftfield nomination, but imo qualifies nonetheless.)

i keep meaning to do a post on the new school of dtv action cinema; movies like universal soldier: regeneration and undisputed ii & iii are leagues better than their theatrical predecessors and break the mold for what you expect from cheapo direct to video productions

― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass)

the new universal soldier movie features scott adkins!!

also i would add sniper: reloaded to that list.

I wonder if there'd be any appetite for a science fiction poll? I'm not necessarily volunteering to wrangle the ballots though could be persuaded to.

It seems like the action movie poll is one that could be redone, since it was unleashed in the era before the new Mad Max films, the John Wick series, the Rebecca Ferguson era Mission impossible films, Edge of Tomorrow, Dredd, etc

wider availability of martial arts cinema means there's like 20 Hong Kong films that totally need to be in there and aren't

would be up for a sci fi poll too